'Is it you who led them here ?' "'Yes, ma'am, it was me,' says I, 'and the best thing I could do for you, for you could not wish to stay here all your life with just the people that are here.' "'But what has happened ?' she said.

'How is it you are here?
What has become of the schooner ?' "'The schooner is sunk, ma'am, and the brig is captured.' "'And my husband ?' "'Well, ma'am, don't you take on, but your husband went down with the schooner.' "She tottered, and I thought she would have fallen, but Mr.Escombe put his arm round her and led her to the house and left her there, putting two sailors on guard to see as she wasn't disturbed.

An hour or two later the frigate was off the cove, and the captain landed.

We stopped a week there, and carried off all there was worth taking; and I tell you there was enough to give every man Jack on board a handsome share of prize money when the things came to be sold afterward.
"Money, there was lots of it, all stored away in what they called the treasure house, for money was no good there.

Jewels and ornaments, watches, and the things which they uses in them Catholic churches, and all kinds of valuable things, and stores of silks and velvets and all kinds of materials; and as to wine and such like, there was enough to have lasted them for years, for from first to last it was shown afterward that those fellows must have captured more nor fifty vessels.
Why they shouldn't have stopped ashore and enjoyed what they got was a mystery to me.